Mexico (Ciudad de México, D.F.) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), "The People for the University. The University for the People." By David Alfaro Siqueiros, relief mosaic, between 1960-1964

Item Overview

Title

Mexico (Ciudad de México, D.F.) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), "The People for the University. The University for the People." By David Alfaro Siqueiros, relief mosaic, between 1960-1964

Photographer

Borcherdt, Donn

Date Created

between 1960-1964

Collection

Donn Borcherdt Collection

Notes

Description

Often referred to as a mural, this work is executed in mosaic over a bas-relief surface. The mosaic tiles were created by the, then new, company Mosaicos Venicianos de Mexico, S.A.
Distant view towards the mural by David Siqueiros, on the Rectory building (Rectoría de la Máxima Casa de Estudios) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, titled "El pueblo a la universidad, la universidad al pueblo."

Keywords

Genre

color photographs

Names

Mosaicos Venicianos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1896-1974

Location

Mexico City (Mexico)

Longitude

19.331797

Latitude

-99.188196

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bas-reliefs--Mexico--Mexico City
Mosaics--Mexico--Mexico City
Universities & colleges--Mexico--Mexico City
Murals--Mexico--Mexico City